Product Description: Immediately after September 11, the Brookings Institution began a comprehensive, multidisciplinary project focused on the key policy challenge of these dangerous times—assessing and improving homeland defense. That intense effort produced Protecting the American Homeland, and it continues in this important new book...read more

The authors interrogate the current U.S./European relationship, discussing the role of NATO after the fall of the Berlin Wall, recent tensions between the Bush Administration and European leaders, and the role of both parties in settling the Israeli/Palestinian crisis. 30,000 first printing.